INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Svetlana Alexievich (Nobel Prize in Literature 2015)
Martin Baron (Washington Post executive editor)
Tom Brokaw (NBC News anchor, commentator)
Michael Keaton (actor/director)
Mai Khoi (Vietnamese singer/activist, 2018 laureate-Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent)
David McCullough (author, historian)
Jose Omar Rabago Vital (board member, past chair, International Free Expression Exchange)
Jillian York (director of international free expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
INCORPORATING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ex officio: Greg Victor: IFEP founder, organizer; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette op-ed/Forum editor
Chair: Sara Longo: IFEP co-organizer; Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab startup manager; director - Airviz; lead representative - EarthTime
Vice Chair: Henry J. Simonds: filmmaker; artist; entrepreneur; president - Henry John Simonds Foundation (Hillman Family Foundations)
Treasurer: Tony Norman: columnist-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cahssey Augenstein; patron, adviser (Cleveland)
Arthur Steven Beeman: partner, Crowell & Moring LLP (San Francisco)
Phil Hallen: retired president-Maurice Falk Foundation
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE CORE WORKING GROUP
Bill Flanagan: chief corporate relations officer, Allegheny Conference for Community Development
Anne Stark Locher: strategic communications consultant; board member - The MacDowell Colony, Aperture
Martha Rial: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
Rekha Shukla: independent evaluator of nonprofit and government programs
Caroline Suh: art curator; fashion producer
Jordan Taylor: filmmaker; musician; teacher
Alexander Woodring: communications-design-media consultant; former Media Project Manager - Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab
COLLABORATORS
SPECIAL ADVISERS
Ken Paulson (president, First Amendment Center; former president, Newseum; former editor-in-chief - USA TODAY)
Barbara Elfman (former director, Boston Metropolitan Waterworks Museum)
John Hillkirk (senior editor, Kaiser Health News; former editor-in-chief - USAToday)
Ascender
Forbes Funds
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management
PATRONS / EVENT HOSTS
Arthur Steven Beeman (partner, Crowell & Moring LLP / San Francisco)
Anne Starke Locher (strategic communications consultant, boards of Aperture Foundation, MacDowell Colony / New York) 
PRIMARY CONTRIBUTORS
Henry John Simonds Foundation (Hillman Family Funds)
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Block Communications Inc.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
William W. Victor
Cahssey and Don Augenstein
John Oller
Jill and Norbert Buelsing Gifting Fund
Jonathan Friendly
Arthur Beeman and  Cate Elsten
Crowell & Moring LLP
Doug Holladay
Rob Long, Clearstory
Carol Steytler, first woman 'pressman' at the Pittsburgh Press / Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1980-2014)
LEGAL COUNSEL
Eric Davis (managing partner, Elliott & Davis PC / Pittsburgh)
Arthur Steven Beeman (partner, Crowell & Moring LLP / San Francisco / pro bono)

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